Welcome to JohnHoltgrew.com!

I know I've been very bad about posting new information. Things have been incredibly busy but productive the last few months. PowerBand Graphics has taken more exciting steps forward offering new services and establishing new clients. I'm really looking forward to growing my business and making my mark in the small business community.

For those that don't know PowerBand Graphics is my graphic design company. It's established to provide creative branding solutions to small businesses in Nebraska. This ranges from identity and logo design to web design and email marketing. Other services include business card & letterhead creation and advertising design. I think there's a big opportunity to help the businesses in communities where I grew up. I know how intimidating good design and design companies can be to organizations just starting out and I want to change that.

I can use the marketing and advertising skills I've learned over almost 10 years to help those businesses brand themselves professionally and better stand out from their and better competitors. This in turn will hopefully help their communities. Anyways, I just wanted to give a quick update to anyone that reads this site. I'm contributing to a blog on PowerBand Graphics every couple of weeks to put a face to my company, give useful info and create a dialogue with my customers. Check it out, I look forward to hearing from you.  

- John

So I've come to the realization that I don't draw much anymore and it
shows. It's sad because I really enjoy drawing and painting and I
don't realize how much I miss it until I start doing it again. I was
playing around with sketching for a design idea I'm working on. It's
nothing too dramatic but if you want to see something new, here it
is... I need to start carrying a sketchbook again.

So I've been experimenting with Wordpress with the idea I'll be
redoing my site and PowerBand Graphics with it. For those sites I'm
planning on creating custom themes for myself, which is what is taking
so long to learn in my free time.

I've also been doing some very simple pro bono work for friends and
family to help me learn this platform. I just finished my first
installation for the Nebraska Garden Tractor Pullers Association at http://www.negtpa.com
it's a really simple site for a hobby that one of my good friends is
involved in. It's helped me test out he waters and see if coding
custom xhtml and cms themes is something I want to do. The next pro
bono work I'm doing will be for my Grandma's Methodist church, lol.
What can I say, I can't turn her down!

At any rate this is building an addition to my business model and
learning new skills to help my clients. Feel free to check the site
out and let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks!

-John